Elements of philosophy : an introduction /
Samuel Enoch Stumpf.
- 3rd ed.
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., �1993.
- xix, 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-587) and index.
Introduction: What Is Philosophy? -- pt. 1. Ethics: What Should I Do and Why Should I Do It? Ch. 1. Fulfilling Human Purpose: Aristotle. Ch. 2. What Can We Control?: The Stoics. Ch. 3. The Modes of Love: Augustine. Ch. 4. A Sense of Duty: Kant. Ch. 5. Pleasure versus Pain: Bentham and Mill. Ch. 6. Turning Values Upside Down: Nietzsche. Ch. 7. Is There a Characteristically Feminine Voice Defining Morality?: Gilligan and Baier -- pt. 2. Politics: Why Should I Obey? Ch. 8. The Natural Basis for Society: Plato and Aristotle. Ch. 9. Political Consequences of Biological Differences: Beauvoir, Plato, and Trebilcot. Ch. 10. Natural Law: Aquinas. Ch. 11. The Social Contract: Hobbes and Locke. Ch. 12. Individualism and Liberty: Bentham and Mill. Ch. 13. Class Conflict: Marx. Ch. 14. Justice as Fairness: Rawls -- pt. 3. Knowledge: What Can I Know? Ch. 15. Opinion versus Knowledge: Plato. Ch. 16. Power of Reason: Descartes. Ch. 17. Limits of Knowledge: Hume. Ch. 18. How Knowledge Is Possible: Kant. Ch. 19. Thinking and Doing: James. Ch. 20. Words and the World: The Linguistic Turn: Russell, Carnap, Wittgenstein, and Rorty -- pt. 4. Religious Knowledge and The Existence of God: What Can I Believe? Ch. 21. The Nature of Religious Knowledge: Aquinas, James, Russell, and Freud. Ch. 22. Proving the Existence of God: Anselm, Aquinas, Paley, Hume, Kant, and Pascal -- pt. 5. Metaphysics: What Is There? Ch. 23. Causes of Being: Aristotle. Ch. 24. Atoms and Space: Leucippus, Democritus, and Eddington. Ch. 25. Mind, the True Reality: Berkeley -- pt. 6. Personal Identity: What Am I? Ch. 26. The Separation of Mind and Body: Descartes. Ch. 27. Descartes' Category-Mistake: Ryle. Ch. 28. Do Minds Survive Death of the Body?: Plato, Hume, and Kierkegaard. Ch. 29. The Mind-Body Problem: Searle -- pt. 7. Freedom of the Will: Is My Will Free? Ch. 30. Human Beings as Controlled Puppets: Hospers. Ch. 31. The Impact of Our Past on Our Present: Radhakrishnan. Ch. 32. A Personal Exemption from Complete Determinism: Skinner. Ch. 33. How Can We Explain Judgments of Regret?: James. Ch. 34. Minds, Brains, and Science: Searle -- pt. 8. The Question of Destiny: What Is the Meaning of Life? Ch. 35. The Deliberate Limitations of Philosophy: Warnock. Ch. 36. The Inevitability of the Question "What Is the Aim of Life": Tolstoy. Ch. 37. The Stages on Life's Way: Kierkegaard. Ch. 38. The Human Condition: Sartre.